This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
Students expand their exposure to the world of Algebra through expressions, equations, functions, and inequalities. An emphasis will be placed on the use of appropriate functions to model real world situations and solve problems that arise from those situations. A focus is also on graphing functions by hand and understanding and identifying the parts of a graph.
Major topics include:
- Equations, inequalities and linear functions
- Quadratic relations and equations
- Polynomial functions and equations
- Radical functions and equations
- Exponential and logarithmic functions
- Rational functions and relations
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
Credit recovery courses do not meet initial eligibility requirements for NCAA. Students who require flexible courses meeting initial eligibility requirements should consider VHS Learning self-paced courses, which can be found in the VHS Learning Catalog.
Algebra 1
Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before registering for this course.
Course Essential Questions:
- What tools do we need to describe and communicate about quantitative relationships?
- How can we create and use a mathematical model to plan for the future?
- How can we communicate about an event using a graphical model?
- How can quantitative relationships be identified through processing and graphing data?
- How can functions be used to model and predict change?
- What problems are best solved using a system of equations and when can they be modeled using graphs?
Course Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate effective methods for simplifying expressions and solving equations.
- Analyze, write and graph equations, inequalities, quadratics and polynomials.
- Construct models to solve real-world problems.
- Operate, solve and graph radical, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions.,
- Construct graphs and models to solve and represent equations.